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James Tobin <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 11 May 2005 00:40:21 -0500
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Larry Sherwood:

>Jim also takes Karl Miller to task for sticking his neck out by suggesting
>that "Shostakovich's writing is more about emotion and Prokofiev's writing
>is more often about music".

I did not "take him to task.," and certainly not for what he meant
to say, which I tended to agree with.  I was simply noting that some
philosophers would quarrel with his use of the word "about" in this
context.

Jim Tobin

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